American soprano Valerie Vinzant acclaimed by critics as “luminous” (New York Times) and "delectable" (Los Angeles Times) is an alumnus of the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at the Los Angeles Opera.
She recently returned to Chicago Opera Theater to star in Ricky Ian Gordon’s Orpheus and Euridice as Euridice and Celia in Mozart's Lucio Silla, joined Pacific MusicWorks production of Gluck's Orphée in the role of Amour as well as Iris in Semele. She also made her international operatic debut at Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes in Handel's Radamisto (Fraarte), she reprised this role at Theater an der Wien.
Vinzant has also brought triumphant returns to the roles of Agilea in Teseo with Philharmonia Baroque and Papagena in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Chicago Opera Theater. Other highlights include Bellante in Handel’s Almira with the Boston Early Music Festival, Mabel in (The Pirates of Penzance) with the Cincinnati Pops, Lidochka (Moscow Cheryomushki)and Agilea in Handel's Teseo with Chicago Opera Theater, La Charmeuse in Massenet's Thais, Susanna (Marriage of Figaro), the title role in Mozart’s opera Zaide with Musica Angelica, Lidochka (Moscow Cheryomushki) with Long Beach Opera, and Williamson Girl in David Lang’s new opera The Difficulty of Crossing a Field.
Her roles at Los Angeles Opera included Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Giannetta (L'elisir d'amore), Frasquita (Carmen), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Drossel (Die Vögel), Ginevra Scotti (Die Gezeichneten), along with covering the roles of Asteria in Handel's Tamerlano and Woglinde/Waldvögel in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
She has appeared as a soloist with the L.A. Philharmonic in Esa-Pekka Salonen's Wing On Wing and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Maestro James Conlon in Rigoletto.
Ms. Vinzant has been a Young Artist with Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera Studio, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Aspen Music Festival. She studied at Indiana University with her teacher Carol Vaness and earned her Bachelor degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.